George Budd @Gbudd@social.cleverlibre.org

Happy Uncle Warren’s Birthday everyone! #WarrenZevon

https://youtu.be/K4Uhs82k_CU

This is Jorah, one of my daughter's 5 cats. He is having a great time showing off the scarf I knitted for my daughter.

#CatsOfMastodon #Cat #Cats #Tabby
#TabbyCat #TabbyCats #Animal #Animals #Pet #Pets #Knit #Knitting #NeedleWork #Stitchery

Do Androids Dream of Electric Mayhem?

#MuppetLit #HashItOut

When I was about ten, I noticed an infrared light in our VCR and became convinced that it was a hidden camera that my parents were using to spy on me.

I wasn’t a bad kid so I wasn’t worried, but I convinced myself that if I sang and danced for the camera, my parents would FINALLY see my talent and help me get on Star Search.

For the next month, I did super weird performances in front of that VCR until I finally acknowledged that they hadn’t provided any feedback on my skillz, at which point I concluded that the only logical conclusion was that the camera wasn’t working, so I…

DISMANTLED THE VCR to examine the camera.

Once everything was opened up and pulled apart, I realized I had no idea what I was looking at so I just screwed everything back together with a bunch of loose, rattling parts inside.

About a week later, I remember watching my dad trying to play a Beverly Hills Cop VHS tape to no avail and silently thinking “this is YOUR fault for not seeing my full POTENTIAL, daaaaad!”

I used to be a cheerleader for switching to the numworks graphing #calculators but I couldn’t get my huge math department on board with that decision. 😒🙄

The TI 84 CE now has a python app— and I guess that’s good enough. Only there are some things I question about the implementation. For example in python to use the math library (sine, cosine, square root etc.) you need to start the program with “from math import *” this feels … silly. It’s a calculator. Why not have #mathematics by default?

Today was shop equipment upgrade day. I've been using an old box lid with a hole cut in the middle as a downdraft table substitute. Keeps the dust mostly contained while I sand, but not great.

Built myself a pegboard version with a fitted hole in the side to accommodate the vacuum hose - it's not perfect, but it's definitely a step up! Tried it out today, and it did indeed catch most of the dust I produced while sanding! Don't have room for a REAL downdraft table...

#woodworking #downdraft

Did you know that you can make croissant dough and bake it into loaf form? I have just discovered this sorcery, and now I want nothing else to eat ever. Send help.

A pic from my lecture last Friday on "Radioactive fallout and dirty bombs"

In this slide, talking about early concepts of radiological warfare, and how the Allied invasion forces had Geiger counters in anticipation of the Nazis "salting" the beaches with uranium particles to sicken and repel the invasion.

This demonstrates that governments were aware of the risk to human health from particles, and that when they later came down as "fall-out" it was not unanticipated.

Also, here in Japan, still wearing a mask during public lectures.

@nuclearhumanities @sts @histodons #nuclear #fallout #Hiroshima #Japan

My daughter is a trans woman.

Here is a comprehensive list of people and institutions she's harming by identifying as a different gender than she did as a child:

A short thread on Emmy Noether and giving credit.

Felix Klein gave a lecture at the Mathematical Society of Göttingen #OTD in 1918. The title was “On Hilbert’s first note on the foundations of physics."

Klein included excerpts from letters in which he and Hilbert give priority to Emmy Noether for her results on conservation of energy in general relativity.

History in pics: Testing prototype Roomba's in 1982. It would take two decades until they could be made small enough to clean under a couch.

This is the socks basket but… it’s not filled with socks.

What was that about the reputation of the illustrious US Supreme Court?

"A secretly made documentary expanding on allegations of sexual assault against supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh has premiered at this year’s Sundance film festival."

“I do hope this triggers outrage,” said producer Amy Herdy in a Q&A after the premiere in Park City, Utah. “I do hope that this triggers action, I do hope that this triggers additional investigation with real subpoena powers.”

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/21/brett-kavanaugh-documentary-sundance-film-festival

It’s 2023 & yes I still use vim ✌️ ~

Our culture constantly pushes the lie that your value as a human being comes from what you do or produce or offer to others.

That's garbage.

You matter no matter what.

You are sacred just for being.

❤️

Shabbat Shalom.

About to go get my 5y/o a Covid shot.

We haven’t told her.

She’s absolutely terrified of needles.

If you hear any screaming and crying, Don’t judge 😂😅😩

#parenting #dadlife #covid #vaccine

i was laid-off twice early in my career in very large reorgs / cost-cutting.

the thing that wld have been helpful for me to hear then was 'this is not abt you. you were a number on someone's spreadsheet. they wanted that number to go down by 1000 or 2000 or 10,000'.

so, to anyone who needs to hear that today:

it's not abt you. you did nothing wrong.

Oh hey there! Can you pick up some better treats while you are out?

#HappyBirthday to #TomBaker!🎂 🦉 ❤️

#DoctorWho #4thDoctor #BarnOwl